Honored Persons Database
Displaying 141 – 160 of 817 Honorees (Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics, with portraits)
Hakon Wium Lie
Proposer of the concept of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Wium Lie worked as an employee at W3C, where he developed CSS into a W3C Recommendation. Wium Lie proposed the Acid2 test, which was...
John Warner Backus
Leader of the team that invented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language, Backus also invented the Backus-Naur form (BNF), the almost universally used notation to define formal language syntax. He...
Jack Elton Bresenham
Developer of Bresenham's Line Algorithm in 1962, Bresenham is recognized as a pioneer in computer graphics. The algorithm is one of the earliest discovered in the field and determines which points in...
Ashok N. Srivastava
Leader of the Intelligent Data Understanding group at NASA Ames Research Center, Srivastava performed research and development of advanced machine learning and data mining algorithms in support of NASA missions. He has...
Donald J. Haderle
Known as the "Father of DB2" for leading the architecture and design of DB2, one of the first commercial relational database management systems (RDBMS), Haderle is an American computer scientist and IBM...
Gary Harpst
Co-founder of Solomon Software and designer of its pioneering accounting products, Harpst grew up in Findlay, Ohio and graduated from Ohio State University with B.A. and M.B.A. degrees in Business and Computer...
Martin Edward Hellman
Co-inventor of public key cryptography, Hellman co-authored with Whitfield Diffie the landmark 1976 paper *New Directions in Cryptography*. It introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, which went far toward...
C. Mohan
Primary inventor of the ARIES family of recovery and concurrency control methods, Mohan is also known for the industry-standard Presumed Abort commit protocol. Mohan joined IBM Research in 1981, where he worked...
Hans Peter Luhn
Creator of the Luhn algorithm and KWIC (Key Words In Context) indexing, Luhn was a computer scientist for IBM whose work is in wide use today. The Luhn algorithm, or Luhn formula,...
Robert Louis Nord
Developer of effective methods and practices for software architecture, Nord has served as a senior member of the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). His areas of interest include software...
Lawrence Moser Breed
Creator of the first computer animation language and system, Breed built it as an undergraduate at Stanford University in 1961 and used it at Stanford football half-times to coordinate images produced by...
George Bernard Dantzig
Known for developing the simplex algorithm for solving linear programming problems, Dantzig was a major contributor in operations research, computer science, and statistics. He also worked with linear programming, some years after...
Bob Blainey
Leader in breakthrough innovation in compiler technology, IBM's Java technology, and next-generation systems, Blainey has served as an IBM Fellow and the technical architect of the Hardware Acceleration Laboratory in IBM's Software...
Doulgas Rayner Hartree
English mathematician and physicist, Hartree was most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to the Hartree-Fock equations of atomic physics and the construction of the meccano differential analyzer.
Victor R. Basili
Recognized for measuring, evaluating, and improving the software development process, Basili has served as an Emeritus Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, both at...
Jonathan Bruce Postel
A significant contributor to the development of the Internet, Postel was involved in early work on the ARPANET while at UCLA. He later moved to the Information Sciences Institute at the University...
James A. Gosling
Credited as the inventor of the Java programming language, Gosling is best known as the father of Java.
Josephine M. Cheng
Developer of IBM's database technology for the web, allowing people to access huge amounts of data via the Internet previously accessible only through proprietary systems, Cheng has been an IBM Fellow (2000)...
Norbert Wiener
Founder of cybernetics, Wiener pioneered the study of stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems. Cybernetics, the field he founded, formalized the notion of...
Randy Howard Katz
Co-developer of the redundant array of independent disks (RAID) concept for computer storage, Katz is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department....